-32C for the drive home.
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Brrrr!!
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OMG, can't imagine how cold it's
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That's pretty cold. Is it a quiet road? You don't seem to have any trees there, for example to make a fire if the car breaks down.
ReplyDeleteThat is serious cold. Here at 55.8 degrees North it's about +5°C today. We've got the Gulf Stream and the Lake, of course.
ReplyDeleteBe careful out there!
I'm in Indiana right now, and we're still down around -15 today. Back home it was a -46 windchill this morning. (-29 w/ -40 windchill at the moment.) Makes me glad I didn't drop the thermostat quite as much as I usually do when we leave. I think it's been a couple of years since we've hit -40 at home now. Glad I'm missing it!
ReplyDelete-14°C here but my diesel started up without any trouble.
ReplyDeleteI feel for you...yesterday's cold front means we won't even get back into the 20s until the weekend. At least we're having a summer this year.
ReplyDeleteExpected temp here today almost 70 degrees c above that ... Heading for 35
ReplyDeleteIt may sound crazy, but I'd rather yours
Yeah I wondered if you plane or auto traversed it.
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison drive safe! I'm still working out in it ... Bunch of freezups as soon as the wind picked up.Sakari Maaranen between here and her home city there is a lot of barren landscape. It's part of the "great plains" that The Tragically Hip refer to in their song Hundredth Meridian. (The Great Plains stretch south to like Oklahoma or something). But in our neck of the plains, the area is also referred to as the Badlands. Great treeless flat expanses of hundreds for kilometres are very common. It makes that cold wind just brutal.
ReplyDeleteWow Michael Ireland - sounds like risky traveling. I always kept a knife - and means to make fire - in my car when I still used one. Those wouldn't help much if there wasn't any wood. Here in Finland we have nothing but forest so wood is easy to find.
ReplyDeleteNo wind, not a busy road. Most of it has cell coverage. We have blankets etc in case of a breakdown. The Porsche spent 2 nights out in the cold (no block heater) with the expectation of starting early in the morning. Performed perfectly. 0W40 and Al block FTW.
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison ya, my Volvo doesn't have any problems at these temps either. I do try to remember to plug in the block heater when it's below -25C just to prevent premature wear and tear, but ya, a light oil helps, too. 5w30 in mine.
ReplyDeleteSakari Maaranen the upside to all this flat land is that cell coverage is pretty good, and all the small towns have some kind of emergency road assistance. There certainly are risks though, not least of which are moose, deer, and antelope.
Michael Ireland all it takes is to leave late in a hurry, forgetting (to recharge) the phone and forgetting to get petrol. Both things you would never think could happen to you.
ReplyDeleteOr it could be an accident, like your car upside down in the ditch and the phone broken, maybe after something less fortunate than this maneuver:
jalopnik.com - Watch This Canadian Driver Avoid Four Moose Like A Boss
Sakari Maaranen there's definitely some truth to what you say. On the other hand, for those of us who've grown up here on the prairies, we have all sorts of habits that help prevent disaster. Winter tires, letting people know when you leave or when you expect to arrive, keeping spare phone batter packs, and so on. This isn't to say bad stuff never happens, though. I don't think it's any more hazardous than city driving, though.
ReplyDeleteA trifle chilly.
ReplyDeleteMichael Ireland absolutely. Winter tires on Nov 1, winter clothing, blankets, candle/lighter, charger in vehicle. Never leave without fueling up, drive during daylight call on arrival. Dogs are in kennels with leashes on. We get so used to taking precautions and there are farm houses and small towns. No one would drive by a vehicle in distress. The moose thing is strange. I was driving to Edmonton and there a couple young moose running diagonally across the road. Very visible but strange.
ReplyDeleteBrian Arbenz it warmed up.
Cass Morrison highway 63 up to Fort MacMurray is bad for moose. And other critters, but the moose are weird. They're a bit like porcupines in that it seems like they don't concern themselves over threats because they don't have many. So they don't mind taking up 2 lanes of traffic, lol!
ReplyDeleteMy brother lives in North Dakota. He says there is a saying there -- "40 below keeps the riffraff out". Totally non PC, but you get the meaning.
ReplyDelete(And yeah, winter tires early and survival kit in the car always.)